The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
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Theysoak their potatoes before fry
ing them in Russia.

In 1870 there were 34,527 idiots in
this country; in 1880, TO-
Lecturers consider Ohio to be the
best state in the union for their bust
ness.
| There is one divorce in every four
and half marriages. statistician
claims.
| A Boston firm viii soon publish Col
onel John 5. Mosby's personal reminis-
eences of the late war.
i The Empress of Russia is not so &C.
centric as she was, which her subjects
attribute to advancing years.
| The list of New York society" peo-
pie who now write for the press or the
magazines foots up thirty-two.
1t is estimated by the chief of the
sanitary department of Paris that there
are nearly 100000 rats in that city.
The Car of Russia threatens to send
any one to Siberia who ventures to sug-
gest that the Czarowitch's health is fail
ing.
AL the quicksilver mines in the world,
are said to be intending extensive in
vestments in gold mines.
In Italy wine has never been known
to be so cheap as it is now. In one
part of the kingdom white wine sells
for five cents gallon.
One of the latest peach orchards in
the world is owned by farmer near
Orchard Hill. Ga II comprises 700
/ ao,..,s a,,l nNA +,.aaS
/ 1t costs the taxpayers of Boston on
an average $4,000 a year to settle
claims against the city on account of
people who are hurt by falling on icy
sidewalks.
| Some Boston women are beginning
to say that it gives them a headache TO
sit through sermon with their bon
nets on, and ask why they cannot take
them off in church.
A IL cent lunch" stand having been
established in New York City, there is
a demand for more of them. The bill
of fare is soup, stewed fish, pork and
beans, coffee, milk and bread.
Inquiries into the depression of the
iron trade of Australia have disclosed
the fact that of total of 5000 work
men about 1880 are unable to OBJ
tain employment at their regular work
Mrs. Eunice Darling, of Hersey, Me-,
aged 101 years, knits pair of stock
ings every day, besides attending to her
household duties. In the language
of the street, ''she's darling, she's a
daisy"
In the county clerks Office at San
Francisco, Cal, is posted up the fol-
lowing notice: Lady applicants for
position will please weep in the ante
room, as the clerk Suffers greatly from
damp feet"
Prof. Philip Paul, colored lecturer
of Jersey City, is the latest controver-
sialist to take the platform in opposi-
ton to the theories of Col. Ingersoll.
The latter will now probably add the
mistakes of Paul to those of Moses
A resolution was introduced at a re-
cent meeting of an assembly of Knights
of Labor in Pittsburg, Pa, calling on
all members of the district to pay the
debts they have contracted with grocers,
tailors, etc. 1t was not acted upon,
however.
Il The Philadelphia Ledger thinks there
is an epidemic of rheumatism this win
ter, and says that crest for the brain,
the body and the digestion, and diet
of hot water and cheerfulness, is the
treatment best warranted to bring the
sufferers right
Mark Twain explains why he does
not like to come to New York with his
wife. ''She is very anxious to have ev-
: eryone think she dresses like a New
: Yorker" he says, land yet whenever
) she buys anything in a store in this city
the clerk is sure to ask: What hotel
shall | send this TO, ma amp"
, The Yale university crew are having
I built at Albany, n. Y, new paper
$ shell, which will combine all the adj
vantages of shells hitherto used with
out the disadvantages 1t is sixty-tive
a feet by twenty-five inches, one foot
longer and one Inch wider than the
z shell used in the race the last time.
How this old world does travel to be
sure Here is the Stewart collection,
believed to be the finest private gallery
= in the country, pronounced by Munkac-
sy as containing a few great pictures,
and even those by the great artists not
Z good examples of their work. So much
: for fashion, and more for critical know
Y ledge.
When Sibley's command moved from
: Texas to New Mexico during the late
/ war it was followed by thousands OF
W turkey-buzzards, and during the few
g years following they multiplied so fast
that the territory was almost overrun
: with them. Since that time, for some
Y cause or other, they have gradually
e died out, until now there is hardly one
to be found in the territory.
l. An exchange is amazed at the an
lie nouncement that captain of the New
e, York police has retired to private life
n with$250, 900. At the same time we hav'
lr the startling story that burglar brok'
into a country newspaper Office at Law
d renee, Mass, and got 5000 out of tn
y safe. A sudden fux of such items a
le these is what destroys the public con
" tidence in the veracity of the press.
Emperor William of Germany recent
at ly made joke, for the first time in hi
D. life. On the eightieth anniversary O
MS his entry into the army one of his doc
n tors tried to prevent him from going t
re the open window to return the saluts
tons of the assemblage outside. Hi
n Majesty replied: Il must go. 1t
n noon, and Baedeker's Guide says tina
a l am always visible at the window a
90 this hour"
al, The proposed enterprise of Ne
York sporting journal to send a ma
DIV around the world in two or three to
he yacht, according to the Boston Journa
lis will not excite so much sympathy an
ly interest as the bicycle ride round til
al world lately successfully accomplished
ne The element of danger and foolhard
ness in an expedition of the sort MOI
than counterbalances the possible az
y, vantages of adventure.
mt The oldest man in Modoc count,
lat California, is .'Tule Dad" aged 1C
Id years. In crossing the plains all of h
ees relatives were massacred by the Ind
ct, ans, and he became a veritable sInju
rs fighter" 1t is said that he can ST
handle his rifle and ride his horse wit
igs as much agility as many men who a
ea, young enough to be his great-gran
-, aL sons. He is great tobaeco-ehewe
ed He acquired the habit ninety years az
10 and has adhered to it ever since.
the Philip Zeigler went to Buffalo, NY
nd from Germany four years ago, and a
NC pears to have spent most of the int
me yening time in falling in love after t
ay Senator Jones fashion. Friday he W
10, arrested at the instance of pretty Lei
in Dieckman, the 19-year-old daughter